Crossword clues for fetched
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fetch \Fetch\ (f[e^]ch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fetched 2; p. pr. & vb. n.. Fetching.] [OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh. the same word as fetian; or cf. facian to wish to get, OFries. faka to prepare. [root]77. Cf. Fet, v. t.]
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To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.
Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.
--Milton.He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
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2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices.
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To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to.
Fetching men again when they swoon.
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To reduce; to throw.
The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
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To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
I'll fetch a turn about the garden.
--Shak.He fetches his blow quick and sure.
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To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle.
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To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. --W. Barnes. To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a circuit; to take a circuitous route going to a place. To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. To fetch headway or To fetch sternway (Naut.), to move ahead or astern. To fetch out, to develop. ``The skill of the polisher fetches out the colors [of marble]'' --Addison. To fetch up.
To overtake. [Obs.] ``Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please.''
--L'Estrange.To stop suddenly.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: fetch)
Usage examples of "fetched".
Lynn Flewelling Seregil must have been generous, Alec thought as she piled his trencher with plump sausages and oat porridge, then fetched a pitcher of milk and some hot ash cakes to go with it.
While Abbot Henry silently fetched a brace of candlesticks from the nearest aumbry and invested them with fresh beeswax candles, Arnault and Ninian moved to the rear of the chapel, where Ninian proceeded to lay out several small items from a deerskin pouch at his girdle.
Sarah finished washing Biffin the sink and, wrapping him in a towel, gave him to Olivia to hold while she fetched his pyjamas from the stove.
She retired to a little distance while he ate, and fetched him a calabash of water to rinse his hands when the meal was done.
Well, sir, the long and the short of it was that I fetched a couple of half-pints and a calabash of water, and between us we finished the whole bottle.
At last, however, breakfast was cleared away, and Job, at my request, fetched the chest, and placed it upon the table in a somewhat gingerly fashion, as though he mistrusted it.
Alastair was changing into his own clothes, which the landlord fetched for him from Edom, he saw from his window in the last faint daylight a square cloakless figure swing from the yard at a canter and turn south with the gale behind it.
She fetched up on the slack of the anchors at the moment a big comber smashed her shoreward.
Then Coquille fetched him mulled wine to help him sleep, and did not come out.
Davy rolled sideways through the water and fetched up against a storefront security grating facing back toward Cox and the street.
She kept no servant, and only employed an old woman, who, for one crown a month, fetched water, and did the rough work.
She was passed from one to other little group until she fetched up by the dominee, who asked a great many questions in quite perfect and beautifully spoken English, and only interrupted himself when the lantern clock on the wall beside him struck the hour in a delicate faraway fashion.
But whether her craving for power and fame would drive her to killing one dustman seemed too far fetched.
They fetched high prices, from fifty to eighty-five guineas, and they came to a fairish figure the lot.
The link between the gear inside his helmet, the small transceiver antenna mounted at the side, and the equipment that Dengar had fetched back from the Mos Eisley spaceport-Boba Fett must have gotten that up and running just before the other two men had shown up.